Al谩n Aspuru-Guzik
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Professor 鈥渉as emerged as one of the more convincing evangelists for the new way of doing chemistry,鈥 , in its latest issue dedicated to computing.
Aspuru-Guzik, a professor in the departments of chemistry and computer science, is at the forefront of efforts to discover new materials faster than ever by leveraging machine learning, robotics and quantum computing.
The MIT Technology Review profile provides a deep dive on Aspuru-Guzik鈥檚 career and the work that he and other members of the are doing to accelerate, automate and reimagine processes that used to take decades so they can be completed in mere months or years.
By speeding up the materials discovery process, he hopes humans can be better prepared for the challenges presented by climate change and other crises.
Aspuru-Guzik is the director of the , a University of Toronto-based strategic initiative that aims to gather researchers from industry, government and academia around pre-competitive research topics related to the lab of the future. He is the Canada 150 Research Chair in Theoretical and Quantum Chemistry and a CIFAR Lebovic Fellow. He is also a CIFAR AI Chair at the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence.